unpublicized

adjective un·pub·li·cized \ ˌən-ˈpə-blə-ˌsīzd \

|Updated on: 13 Jul 2018

Definition of unpublicized

: not brought to the public's attention : not publicized

an unpublicized appearance/event

Recent Examples of unpublicized from the Web

Since then, they have been housed at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston: unnoticed, unpublicized — and perhaps off-limits.

— jennifer schuessler, New York Times, "Jacqueline Kennedy’s Notes for Dallas Are Found, Starting a Quiet Tug of War," 2 July 2018
Seven years into being a band, pop-rock fivesome Real Friends faced perhaps their most trying year in 2017 when frontman Dan Lambton's bipolar disorder worsened and caused the band to go on an unpublicized hiatus.

— taylor weatherby, Billboard, "Real Friends Announce New Album 'Composure,' Premiere Emotive Single 'Smiling On The Surface'," 18 June 2018
There were other, unpublicized run-ins that people close to Lynch characterize as profiling.

— robert klemko, SI.com, "A Marshawn Kind of Way," 9 Dec. 2014
That leads to another unpublicized reality: limited access to cheap cars that are reliable.

— steve lang, Car and Driver, "Cash-Strapped Shoppers Enter the Used-Car Market on the Losing End," 12 Mar. 2018
At a previously unpublicized hearing in January, Block accepted five years of probation and agreed to pay $14,872 for the cost of the police investigation.

— david ovalle, miamiherald, "In battle with animal rights activists, he sent letter filled with white powder. To himself. | Miami Herald," 9 Mar. 2018
The map of Afghanistan appears as a spiderweb of lines connecting bases, showing supply routes, as does northeast Syria, where the United States maintains a network of mostly unpublicized bases.

— author: liz sly, Anchorage Daily News, "US soldiers are revealing sensitive and dangerous information by jogging," 29 Jan. 2018
The map of Afghanistan appears as a spiderweb of lines connecting bases, showing supply routes, as does northeast Syria, where the United States maintains a network of mostly unpublicized bases.

— idahostatesman, "US soldiers are revealing sensitive and dangerous information just by jogging," 29 Jan. 2018
The map of Afghanistan appears as a spiderweb of lines connecting bases, showing supply routes, as does northeast Syria, where the United States maintains a network of mostly unpublicized bases.

— author: liz sly, Anchorage Daily News, "US soldiers are revealing sensitive and dangerous information by jogging," 29 Jan. 2018

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